2月21日你曾否爲他忘形？

她在我身上作的是一件美事。（可十四6）

愛若不能叫人忘形，就不是愛。愛若是拘謹、明智、合理、計較、從不會忘形的，那根本不是愛。那可能是感情，令人感覺溫暖，却不是真正的愛。

我曾否爲神成就一事而虛己忘形，不是因爲責任，不是因著有用，也不是因著任何緣故，而單單因爲我愛他？我有沒有奉上他所看爲珍貴的東西？還是我在他偉大的救恩裏游手好閑，不去做周圍無數正等著我去做的事？不一定是大事，才稱爲美妙的，日常的、平凡的俗務，都可以見證我向神的順服。我曾否使主喜悅，正如伯大尼馬利亞所做的？

有時神似乎在觀察，看我們願不願意把真愛毫不保留地表現出來。完全歸神，比個人的聖潔更有價值。個人的聖潔使我們只注視本身的潔白，叫我們十分謹慎自己的言行舉止，唯恐得罪了神。若我們無保留地歸神，完全的愛情就能把這些一概拋開。要除掉這個念頭：“我有沒有用？”要深信自己無用，這才更接近真相。因爲那根本不是有用與否的問題，而在神是否看爲寶貴。我們若全然歸神，他每時每刻都藉著我們作工。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，願我愈來愈渴望將愛心如衣服般穿上，以致當我與人接觸，他便成爲人最恒久認出的東西。

February 21 Have You Ever Been Carried Away For Him?

“She hath wrought a good work on Me.” Mark 14:6

If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may be warmth of feeling, but it has not the true nature of love in it.

Have I ever been carried away to do something for God not because it was my duty, nor because it was useful, nor because there was anything in it at all beyond the fact that I love Him? Have I ever realized that I can bring to God things which are of value to Him, or am I mooning round the magnitude of His Redemption whilst there are any number of things I might be doing? Not Divine, colossal things which could be recorded as marvellous, but ordinary, simple human things which will give evidence to God that I am abandoned to Him? Have I ever produced in the heart of the Lord Jesus what Mary of Bethany produced?

There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him the abandoned tokens of how genuinely we do love Him. Abandon to God is of more value than personal holiness. Personal holiness focuses the eye on our own whiteness; we are greatly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, fearful lest we offend Him. Perfect love casts out all that when once we are abandoned to God. We have to get rid of this notion – “Am I of any use?” and make up our minds that we are not, and we may be near the truth. It is never a question of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.